Weird, I didn’t have issues on tuesday, but maybe I just didn’t run into one of those situations.
They nipped that bud in legion, if it was only that easy
Literally just finished an ML 14 where orbs spawned under the azerokk boss’ hitbox and I could not click on them as the tank because adds were sufficiently close to prevent tab targeting.
On bosses like gunker in junkyard if he spawns an orb in his hitbox you can tab target because he’s likely the only target at the time. However fights with a high uptime of adds + boss are broken by this explosive targeting change.
Make the orbs clickable as the top item on the z-axis regardless of what is near the orb, or revert this tab targeting change (assuming it is not a bug). This is just stupid.
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I was in a less important key fighting 2 mobs and an explosive. I tabbed for the entire duration of the explosive (we were all full HP and in no danger of death) until it blew up. It would literally not switch to it. Have tried different camera angles and positions and such and sometimes they cannot be tab targeted. Manually clicking when there are few is fine. If there’s 7 mobs and 4 explosives good luck.
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Done explosives hundreds and hundreds of times. Tab always worked for me (May have to cycle a bit). This week it’s different. They changed it or it’s bugged. Period.
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Would be nice to get a blue response on this. Had a few dungeons with rage quits because everyone got mad peeps were “ignoring” orbs, when it was all just targeting issues. Its almost impossible as melee in a multi mob pull. A little easier for ranged, but still its stupid.
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For melee and tanks tab targeting was how it worked. You point your self at the explosive and usually first tab you got it targeted.
Now ( Unless it’s been fixed/changed ) sometimes you can’t get tab targeting to pick it up before it explodes.
Seems like tab targeting used to favor explosives and now it doesn’t so you really have to get it the closet target and pointed right at while turned away from other mobs.
Which is just gawd awful stupid if this is intentional. The game part of the mechanic should be noticing them in the heat of combat and stopping DPS on your targets to kill them, not fight the interface.
What’s the explanation here? They LoS’d your tab key?
This does need some blue clarification / explanation.
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Tab works sometimes for me and other times not. As a tank I’m torn between moving to kill the orbs myself or just dragging the mobs away and letting my dps do it. Sometimes the hitboxes get in the way.
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Worst part is that it’s inconsistent.
Sometimes you can tab target them, other times not.
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Tab targetting definitely worked better the last time explosives was in the affix list. I wouldn’t mind clicking them if they weren’t always covered by other players or mobs. In big pulls it can be almost impossible to target them.
It gets worse with bolstering because mob size increases with each stack. Lol
I literally had a tab target switch to the golem on the bridge after the Kings & Queens room in King’s Rest rather than the explosive DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME.
Can’t tab target them, can’t click on them when it matters most, and can’t macro target them…
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Yeah. Hard to believe this isn’t a bug.
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Are we sure about this?
Not at all. It just feels like a bug. If someone knows more or if blizzard has addressed it I’m all ears.
And here I just thought I got really bad during my break from tanking.
I used to tab target these on my vdh and pop them pretty quick, but we got wrecked in a junkyard key for not being able to target them.
I was initially upset that the 2 ranged dps werent targetting until I tried catching as many as possible, then figured out I couldn’t target the things even by clicking the nameplate at times.
A blue reply would be nice if this is either a bug or untended change to assist in wiping groups, which I doubt.
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I don’t recall being able to tab target them in the past. Always had to manually select them.
Do you not use nameplates?
I ran an 8 Temple and before the windserpent boss there was 1 mob left of a pack of 3. I tried to tab the single orb with a single mob and it refused to target the orb. Trying to click was futile as it would just keep clicking the mob.
The only thing that was consistently working half the time was right clicking the orb. Tabbing rarely worked.
I think it’s a bug with combat only nameplates. I use blizzard nameplates too. It appears the orbs are not in combat with you when they spawn.
Just make them targetable with a macro. So what of it trivializes the mechanic. They still can’t be ignored outright.
As it is, I’m done with keys this week after just 2.
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Explosive is not the hardest affix, but it’s certainly the most freaking annoying. I’m sorry Blizzard, but whoever thought that making the explosives not targetable by macro, not targetable (at least not most of the time) by tab-targeting, and also hard as hell to click on (as ranged it’s an exercise in futility most of the time trying to click one in the middle of melee and enemy mobs) is honestly a sadist. This is the least fun affix to me because it is simply an exercise in frustration, nothing more. Get rid of it.
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I under stand this because it really would make the affix pointless. Just putting the target infront of the cast on your spam damage rotation and they’re taken care of without even noticing they’re their.
But it would be nice to have one affix that’s a non issue freebee.